This is a human AU set in the Roman era post HadrianXander is a Roman soldier. Spike is a young man from a northern tribes who is a slave (?) or war booty (?) They start off as enemies - hardly able to communicate due to language barriers.They end up helping each other. Story was fairly long.

Author: josie_h@yahoo.com Archived at: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=rngrdeadPairing: Xander/Spike Rating: Mature Audiences – for content and themes Summary: Xander has PTSD after rescuing one too many slayers. Spike is recovering (sort of) after the battle with W&H. Fate may have it they eventually find each other - she's funny that way.

Spoilers: Sometime in season five AtS – and possibly late seven BtVS. Warnings: M/M – if you don’t like boys together, don’t play here!Disclaimer: Don’t own the characters nor make any money from stories etc, and bow down to their original creators Joss, et al., plus all the wonderful online writers who continue to give the Buffy/Angel verse characters life.

The below stories are being looked for on the Seeking Spike website by lil_bit03 and sound like good reads. Do they sound familar to anyone?

Looking for two stories:

1. Drusilla slowly drives Xander insane while he and his parents are on a vacation ( I believe they went to New Orleans). Spike eventually finds them and Xander is already turned and can hear the stars like Dru and pays more attention to Xander.

2. Xander's parents put him in a ayslum and Drusilla gets herself admitted and she and Spike break him out. Angel 'rescues' Xander and takes him back to the ayslum, not realizing his mistake until too late.

Author: josie_h@yahoo.com Archived at: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=rngrdeadPairing: Xander/Spike Rating: Mature Audiences – for content and themes Summary: Xander has PTSD after rescuing one too many slayers. Spike is recovering (sort of) after the battle with W&H. Fate may have it they eventually find each other - she's funny that way.

Spoilers: Sometime in season five AtS – and possibly late seven BtVS. Warnings: M/M – if you don’t like boys together, don’t play here!Disclaimer: Don’t own the characters nor make any money from stories etc, and bow down to their original creators Joss, et al., plus all the wonderful online writers who continue to give the Buffy/Angel verse characters life.

You guys seem to know or have written all the good fics, I remember one where Xander has pulled away from the Scoobies and the Hellmouth. He is working with metal and his work is in high demand, he is also the student of our favorite Chaos Mage, Ethan. One of the things he has been learning is how to disable Spikes chip. Does any of this ring a bell? I thought I had the fic bookmarked but I can't find it now. TIA

After almost a decade out of this fandom I began to re-read many of the fics.And I just had to post this to say how many wonderful writers and stories this fandom had/have.And I'm thankful to the ones ho put the work into the Spanderfiles website. Without their effort many, many stories would be lost forever.